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Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Andreia Pinto Correia is currently pursuing a composition doctoral degree at the New England Conservatory, in Boston, studying with Michael Gandolfi. She received her Master of Music degree with Academic Honors in Jazz Composition as a student of Bob Brookmeyer from NEC, and a double degree in Film Scoring and Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music. Recent awards include the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award by the Japan Society (2008) and the NEC Contemporary Ensemble Honors Composition Competition (2008).
Recent commissions include the Avian Music Contemporary Ensemble (NY), Antena2/RTP, Sérgio Carolino/Anne Jelle Visser, Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos, European Movement Jazz Orchestra (EMJO), AR Ensemble, and the Lisboa Mistura Festival, among others. Miss Pinto Correia is a scholarship and grant recipient of several institutions including the Composers Conference, New England Conservatory, Luso-American Foundation for the Development, Beneficent Society, BMI Composers Workshop in NY, Berklee College of Music, Berklee College Alumni Grant, and the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil, among others.
Miss Pinto Correia started her career by performing extensively with her Jazz Orchestra which has featured performers such as André Fernandes, Eli Degibri, Perico Sambeat, Marc Miralta, Carmen Staff, Sara Serpa, Bernardo Moreira, Carlos Martins, Jorge Reis, Joăo Moreira, Claus Nymark, and André Matos, among others. She has also collaborated with Cape Verdean artists Vasco Martins, Nacia Gomi and Mário Lúcio as Musical Director of the Commemorations of the 30 years of Independence of that country and currently has a project featuring Brazilian percussionist Peu Meurray in Salvador, Bahia. She is the co-founder of the Luso-Austro Jazz Orchestra with composer Johannes Berauer, a project sponsored by a Berklee College of Music Alumni Grant and she was a member of the NEC Jazz Composers Orchestra, a project directed by her former teacher Bob Brookmeyer. She recently founded the ARMAT Chamber Ensemble, a collaboration project with Armenian pianist/composer Vardan Ovsepian.
Miss Pinto Correia is devoted to concert music, in particular orchestral music, that combines both the influences of her native country and the techniques of contemporary music.